Bertolt Brecht Quotes
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
Brecht, Bertolt. The Exception and the Rule. Translated by Ralph Manheim, Arcade Publishing, 1994.
See Heraclitus {436440} for the ancient Greek exposition of this idea.
Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht, known professionally as Bertolt Brecht, was a German theatre practitioner, playwright, and poet. Coming of age during the Weimar Republic, he had his first successes as a playwright in Munich and moved to Berlin in 1924, where he wrote The Threepenny Opera with Kurt Weill and began a lifelong collaboration with the composer Hanns Eisler. Immersed in Marxist thought during this period, he wrote didactic Lehrstücke and became a leading theoretician of epic theatre (which he later preferred to call "dialectical theatre") and the so-called V-effect.
